invisible art space 2025 wrapup

Submitted by AliaK on Wed, 31/12/2025 - 16:08

Thanks to all the artists, visitors and supporters for a wonderful 2025 at invisibleart.space (ias)!

Since opening in June 2025:

- we've held 8 exhibitions (6 at Balmain, 1 at The ARI Show art fair, 1 at the Southern Highlands Arts Trail)

- the ias exhibitions were a mix of curated group shows, solo shows, an end of residency show, art fair & arts trail shows

- ias featured artists from various locations: UK/USA, New Zealand, Sydney (Inner West & Western Suburbs), NSW regional areas: Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands and the Central Coast

- shown a variety of works, methods, materialities & themes to showcase works on screen & works on paper, the conversations between the various themes plus the numerous ways digital / immaterial art can be brought into the material / physical world: digital / immaterial works on screen, paintings, living sculpture, installation, digital projection, screen printing, digital prints, photographic techniques, hand-programmed code based works, plotter prints, video based works

- hosted 2 [In]Visible Synth Sessions -> synth music jams

Thanks to all our artists shown this year!!

Celadoor, Angharad Evans, Mark Facchin, Beata Geyer, [In]Visible Synth Sessions, Neil Jenkins, Laurence Kimmel, Keorattana Luangrathrajasombat, Victoria Lobregat, Kath O'Donnell, Stu Sontier, Anke Stäcker, Shelley Watters
(alpha order)

We wish you all a happy new year and creative 2026!

In 2026, we have many projects and exhibitions being planned, and also work towards the space becoming sustainable going forwards. We hope you will come along for the ride

--kath from invisibleart.space

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Cordyline fragments

Submitted by AliaK on Tue, 23/12/2025 - 00:01

Cordyline fragments showing in the "a:\Hybrid Matter - GLB 2.0.exe" exhibition curated by Ceren Su @celikcerensu & Abramovskiy @abramovskiyv // @accomparts

exhibition opened 16 Dec 2025

collection available at https://objkt.com/collections/exhibitions/projects/hybrid-matter-glb-2-0... (individual NFTs available here for purchase/collection & viewing + AR option)

online 3d world gallery: https://oncyber.io/hybridmatterglb20 where you can move around / between the works

artworks from: Javier Montero, AliaK (me/kath odonnell), IvnHgo, Ceren Su, Lidice Silveira, Time, davidvnun, MartinJoSs, Digital Coleman (Chris Coleman), ANTN, nipetrov, Psychofuturist, Mina Hloy, Lewie, Marcel's underground

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Cordyline fragments --> This is a lidar / 3D scan of some plants from my childhood home, including Cordyline Fruticosa Firestorm & ferns. The digital nature of the scan creates fragments / traces of memories, warped over time

Thanks to the curators for including my work in this exhibition! Love seeing & being part of this exhibition of 3D works / digital objects / sculptures


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old studies in artificial intelligence and expert systems

Submitted by AliaK on Mon, 08/12/2025 - 15:02

I started studying “artificial intelligence” and “expert systems” back in early uni days, 1988-1991 during science?* / electrical engineering? / information technology* courses. I found an old uni article on AI / expert systems that I’d written, even mentions Marvin Minsky and his agent-based intelligence. Typed on dot matrix printer paper no less / early undergrad notes, be kind. As well as photocopies of articles from then whilst unpacking old storage boxes. This was before there was the “Internet” / “World Wide Web” that we have today, so research meant going to the uni library and searching journals, popular tech magazines, books, if they had any current enough that included new tech. At the time I was also working full-time, not in this field directly so abandoned it/moved in another direction. Have kept an eye on things over the years, but it’s nice/fun to catch up again now, to the new tech. Full circle so to speak. Have a few ideas for projects / art inquiries also, which I must actually start!

I’m planning to do two more machine learning classes via IATD — I’ve done some already on the more data science / data analysis type of machine learning. I really want to learn more about computer vision. IATD partner with some of the universities, Tafe and large corporates so we often are taught by PhD students/experts at a fraction of the price of uni, plus I like that they’re very hands on -> theory + coding. Coming up in Feb 2026 I’m taking the NLP class, then will take the deep learning class after this (having then finally met all the pre-requisites)

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december at invisible art space and nearby

Submitted by AliaK on Thu, 04/12/2025 - 13:44

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DECEMBER

06-20 December 2025 ::: works on screen and prints from Mark Facchin.

Mark Facchin is an artist, designer and animator working with digital methods and materials to augment and investigate drawing and painting processes. He was a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize (2015,17,19 & 22), was shown in the 2018 Head On Screens (Paddington) and recently exhibited Articulate Project Space (Leichhardt).

Both works on screen and works on paper will be displayed at The Augmented Canvas exhibition at invisibleart.space, showing anthropomorphic forms, noise patterns, virtual tracings and simulations of physics' properties, such as wind and flow fields via virtual brush strokes.

You're invited to the opening event on Saturday 06 December 2025, 1-3pm.

The exhibition runs 06-20 December (sat+sun ::: 12-3pm) at invisibleart.space, 141/2-18 Buchanan St, Balmain.


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The Augmented Canvas exhibition ::: Mark Facchin

Submitted by AliaK on Wed, 03/12/2025 - 16:12

Mark Facchin is an artist, designer and animator working with digital methods and materials to augment and investigate drawing and painting processes. He was a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize (2015,17,19 & 22), was shown in the 2018 Head On Screens (Paddington) and recently exhibited Articulate Project Space (Leichhardt).

Both works on screen and works on paper will be displayed at The Augmented Canvas exhibition at invisible art space, showing anthropomorphic forms, noise patterns, virtual tracings and simulations of physics' properties, such as wind and flow fields via virtual brush strokes.

You're invited to the opening event on Saturday 06 December 2025, 1-3pm.

The exhibition runs 06-20 December (sat+sun ::: 12-3pm) at invisibleart.space, 141/2-18 Buchanan St, Balmain.



photographer credit: Mark Facchin

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RE:IMAGE exhibition at Articulate Project Space

Submitted by AliaK on Thu, 13/11/2025 - 19:37

RE:IMAGE exhibition at Articulate Project Space
01-23 November 2025

artists:
Aidan Gageler, Alice Crawford, Andrew Simms, Angharad Evans, Annelies Jahn, John Prendergast, Julie Visible, Kath O'Donnell, Kathryn Bird, Kendal Heyes, Keorattana Luangrathrajasombat, Mark Facchin, Neil Jenkins, Pia Larsen, Samuel James, Steven Fasan, Sue Murray, Zorica Purlija

Curated by Anke Stäcker and Beata Geyer

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I'm gallery sitting this Friday 11am-2pm, 14 Nov if you'd like to pop in, otherwise visit the exhibition Friday-Sundays weekly until 23 Nov, 11am-5pm

Artist talks this Sunday, 16 November, 2-4pm

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mini-survey of my work at the Southern Highlands Arts Trail

Submitted by AliaK on Wed, 12/11/2025 - 19:59

the print arrived of one of my plastisphere creatures - imagined creatures evolved to live on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. looks amazing even if I do say so myself! will have it in the invisibleart.space art-shed for the final weekend of the Southern Highlands Arts Trail

this #speculativeEvolution series is #AIart made in 2023 & 2024, printed in 2025. the video and cyanotype prints are on display also -> early photographs of future creatures

my other works on show are from my #specture series ::: hand-made / hand-coded web drawings in javascript (P5.JS), hand made #bioPlastic materiality tests, 3D printed extinct & speculative evolution species, 3D scanned - lidar & photogrammetry works, 3D modelling digital works brought into the physical world after beginning as hand drawn contour drawings, covering topics such as extinction, speculative evolution, lost interconnections from the species loss of ecosystem engineers / public housing providers of the environmental world

this video (11mins) is a run through / documentation of my works at the end of the arts trail. this is a mini-survey of some my ecology-based artworks since completing my Fine Art and Visual Culture degree up until now. I'm looking forward to what's coming next!

-- kath odonnell, November 2025
Southern Highlands Arts Trail 2025 ::: 1, 2, 8, 9 November 2025



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november - december at invisible art space and nearby

Submitted by AliaK on Fri, 24/10/2025 - 17:04

Hi everyone, another busy month ahead as we approach the end of the year and warmer weather. Thanks so much for all your support this year, really appreciated!

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OCTOBER - FINAL DAYS

24-26 October 2025 ::: final days for Keorattana Luangrathrajasombat’s R0CK B0D1ES - WORLD BUILDING show, Ivor Barnard’s Dispossessions show and Maria Constantinescu’s SYNTHESIS show at Articulate Project Space

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25 October 2025 ::: closing day for Neil Jenkins’ formation exhibition at invisibleart.space

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NOVEMBER

01-02 + 08-09 November 2025 (sat+sun 10am-5pm)::: invisible art space will be part of the Southern Highlands Arts Trail — studio #18", with artists Kath O’Donnell*** & Laurence Kimmel. The Balmain gallery space will be on a break during this time, whilst activities take place in the Highlands. There’s 42 artists opening their studios for visitors to see how they work. A great time to visit the highlands for a day trip or weekend away!

https://thepopupproject.com.au/artstrail-2025 has the map & more info, or let me know if you need a paper copy of the map and I can send to you

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Neil Jenkins' "formation" exhibition at invisible art space

Submitted by AliaK on Tue, 30/09/2025 - 22:16

Neil Jenkins' ::: formation ::: exhibition 4-25 October, sat+sun 12-3pm.

Neil is an interdisciplinary artist working with digital and physical mediums and processes. He's been creating net art and new media art since the 1990s, as well as working with eminent groups such as Furtherfield (UK), dLux Media Arts (Sydney) amongst others.

On display in this exhibition are some of his earlier interactive web artworks, video art, screen prints, and recent code-based plotter prints. Neil's installed his pen plotter in the gallery and will be plotting works during the exhibition!

You're invited to the opening event on sunday 12 October, 1-3pm
All welcome!

https://www.instagram.com/neiljenkins_
https://computational.com.au

invisibleart.space
141/2-18 Buchanan St, Balmain (SYD/AUS)

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september - november at invisible art space & beyond

Submitted by AliaK on Thu, 11/09/2025 - 21:33

September-November is a great time to get out and about to see art in Sydney and enjoy this springtime weather

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SEPTEMBER

02-18 sept (tues-thurs 11am-3pm) ::: The ARI Show @ Muse Gallery, Tafe Ultimo. A collection of ARIs are exhibiting at this art fair, including: 4th wall, Articulate Project Space, Tiny Gallery, Draw Space / The Drawing Collective, Lennox Street Art Studios, Our Neon Foe, Daisy Knight and Invisible Art Space (us!)***

12 sept (fri 6-8pm) ::: After Hours event for The ARI Show @ Muse Gallery, Ultimo. Come along to the evening gathering, being held during Sydney Contemporary week. tickets are free - available here



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Agitate/d exhibition

Submitted by AliaK on Thu, 01/05/2025 - 11:19

Agitate/d

Angharad Evans, Beata Geyer, Billy Gruner, Chris Packer, Gary Deirmendjian, Ian Milliss, Isobel Johnston, Juliet Fowler Smith & Noelene Lucas – WRVAP, Kath O'Donnell, M Bozzec, Paraskevy Begetis, Pia Larsen, Sarah Keighery, Susan Andrews, Tom Loveday
Curated by Lizzy Marshall

Articulate Project Space | Downstairs | Opens on May 3 until May 25 | Fri, Sat & Sun

Agitate/d responds to the frustrations and the inability to communicate the manifestations of change occurring.

Responding to the shifting world order and accruing frustrations in our daily lives, Agitate/d presents artworks that communicate across suppression and censorship, or articulate the incomprehensible. Drawing on the Suprematists’ and Constructivists’ drive for a universal system of language that was inclusive, the exhibition showcases works that utilise laconic and subversive visual strategies of communicating.

Through the graphic, geometric, colour, typographic, and semaphore, the artists show us that they are agitated, communicating what is causing their agitation or creating newly responsive agitprop. Agitation is action.

https://www.articulateprojectspace.org/project/25-05-D

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body as sac (2025)

Submitted by AliaK on Sat, 29/03/2025 - 12:01

body as sac (2025)

Inspired from reading “bodies of water“ and “material feminisms“ books, with their ideas on the posthuman feminine body and theories - bodies of water, blood, milk etc. made me think about what other materials are in the posthuman body, now we’re carrying plastic and some are injecting botox and saline and other cosmetic materials. For this work I explored making bioplastic / bio-silicone to see what other sustainable materials might be used. Or, if society moved to more sustainable plastics could they dissolve before/in the body for less harm? So this is a sac (fishbowl, that ppl look at, like feminine bodies are looked at) with materiality explorations and gloopy liquids (from photos of the materials’ samples & closeup pics via a digital microscope, made more gloopy via AI) are projected into the body/bowl via another pepper’s ghost process to show movement and life in the body, whilst the petri dish samples cure / set during the duration of the exhibition …

“Boobs Are Dancing” exhibition at @articulateprojectspace sydney. Thanks so much for the opportunity to show my work in this wonderful group show!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHhfsQpz7KF




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20240917 - on Marcos Novak's Virtual Dervish and specture-world

Submitted by AliaK on Tue, 17/09/2024 - 23:23

is anything new these days? when I had an idea a while ago to make a 'specture-world', a group of interconnected virtual spaces to explore different digital species, their habitats, architectures and environments in each one, and let others build / add on their versions to this (hopefully) ever-growing spatial hive of places, I hadn't already read or remembered (?!?) Marcos Novak's "Dancing with Virtual Dervish" virtual world project from the mid 1990s.

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Sonic Publics

Submitted by AliaK on Sun, 04/08/2024 - 23:40


What do we gain from public exposure to sound and how can audio be used to create urban environments that connect with the public?

Sonic Publics addresses the public presentation of sound. Audio is installed in industrial-scaled art galleries, tower lobbies, hospitals and concert hall foyers. Taking numerous forms, from compositions accompanying light environments to music designed to comfort visitors in office lobbies, audio arts presented in this way expands and shifts contemporary notions of public and private space. Sonic publics have grown rapidly, exposed knowingly or unknowingly to audio arts through large festivals focused on displays that fill their environments with sound and light to commercial environments that have placed large-scale screens and sound systems in entrance spaces.

Sonic publics, as presented in this forum, form across situations; visitors’ unheard energies are made sonic, apps such as Spotify and YouTube present algorithmically manipulated music to the public—at once diversifying and standardising music, and synthesised music is played to children in hospitals.

This forum, with its focus on the presentness of sound, asks a crucial question: What do we gain from public exposure to sound, and how can audio be used to create urban environments that connect with the public in a human-centred manner?

SPEAKERS

Chair: Associate Professor Caleb Kelly, UNSW School of Art & Design

Dr Adam Hulbert, UNSW School of the Arts & Media

Dr Tom Smith, UNSW School of the Arts & Media / UNSW School of Art & Design graduate

Dr Pia van Gelder, ANU School of Art & Design / UNSW School of Art & Design graduate

This forum will also be livestreamed: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/89794965569
Wednesday, August 7, 12 - 2pm AEST
UNSW Art & Design Paddington

part of the 2024 Research Forum examining the key research undertaken at the UNSW School of Art & Design
info via Sonic Publics ticketing site

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This Hideous Replica exhibition

Submitted by AliaK on Sun, 04/08/2024 - 20:06

Lifting its title from a misheard line in a 1980 song by The Fall about a reclusive dog breeder whose ‘hideous replica’ haunts industrial Manchester, this experimental project—an admixture of artworks, performances, screenings, workshops, a ‘replica school’ and other uncanny encounters—adopts monstrous replication as a tactic, condition and curatorial framework for exploring algorithmic culture, simultaneously alienating, seductive and out-of-control.

Exhibition includes works by Amy May Stuart, Angie Waller, Anna Vasof, Debris Facility, Diego Ramirez, Emile Zile, Joshua Citarella, Liang Luscombe, Loren Adams, Masato Takasaka, Matthew Griffin & Heath Franco and Mo Chu.

Performances, talks and workshops by Catherine Ryan, Chloe Sobek, Jennifer Walshe, Joel Sherwood Spring, Machine Listening, McKenzie Wark, Roslyn Helper, Tomomi Adachi and more.

Curated by Joel Stern and Sean Dockray.

This Hideous Replica has been produced by RMIT Culture and supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and the RMIT Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platforms. This project is a part of the City of Melbourne’s Now or Never festival. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body and by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

23 Aug - 16 Sep 2024

Image: Mochu, GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE, 2022, digital video (still), Image courtesy of the artist.

info via RMIT Gallery - visit RMIT Gallery for more info

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